Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
Author
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
Content
xvii + 398 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2022
Publisher
New York: Doubleday
Description
Focuses on Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch at Oxford University after World War II and their explorations of morality and the development of a moral philosophy that existed in its own reality.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Social Criticism
ISBN
9780385545709 (cloth); 9780385545716 (ebook)
Citation
Mac Cumhaill, Clare, and Rachael Wiseman. Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life. New York: Doubleday, 2022. Sylvia. Accessed June 16, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2354.